If you’ve ever asked yourself: How to improve coffee’s waking effect without drinking more of it? – the answer is: Add 3-4 frozen cherries.

Living a life of a freelancer requires very little physical effort – you don’t need to go almost anywhere except business meetings and places to find food (supermarkets, cafe, restaurants, etc.). It’s obvious everyone needs regular exercise to be healthy enough to live pleasant life, but when you’re working 10-12 hours a day you just [...]

Prepare yourself to work less When planning your workflow during a trip it’s very important to understand that working outside familiar workspace will reduce your productivity unless you don’t care where to work (then why would you like to go on a journey?). So what you need to do is to create a schedule with [...]

Here’s my new free wallpaper entry for Smashing Magazine. Watching Universe Twirl You can download it for free in different dimensions from Smashing Magazine (it’s somewhere in the bottom of the post). Check out also my girlfriend’s entry: Summer cat by Marina Nozyer You can also download it for free from Smashing Magazine.

A week or so ago I’ve returned to Moscow from Belozersk. It’s a city in Russia about 700km away from where I live. I’ve spent 5 days there with my girlfriend. It was a very interesting experience – this city differs a lot from my hometown. For example, you can find internet only in public [...]

Here’s my entry for Creative Sessions. Feel free to download it!

Being a freelancer means that technically you can work from anywhere you can find Internet. But a trip to a new country (or even a new neighborhood) could be a challenge! Here is the first part of a list of things you’d better do before you go on a journey. Internet connection Going to a [...]

Below is a small collection of music videos that look like illustration. If you press “pause” you can see a very nice illustration instead of video almost anytime! Austin TV / Shiva from Alberto Cerriteño on Vimeo. The Beatles Rockband Intro from Stephane coedel on Vimeo. The Beatles Rockband Outro from Stephane coedel on Vimeo. [...]

This time I’ve decided to leave maximum white (in this case black) space for users needs – so one can place all the icons, shortcuts, etc without hitting the graphics. You can download this wallpaper from Smashing Magazine for free. If you like this wallpaper, you might be interested in following ornaments for sale designed [...]

All of us face dull work time to time. Here are some options how to avoid negative feelings about it. Delegate it to someone It might look simple, but you are still responsible for the result and you have to pay the person for this work. If you’re a good manager and you have reliable [...]